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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in my late 40s so young Gen X and I have elementary school kids. I can't imagine having the kind of time on my hands that these characters do. Their lifestyles definitely seem closer to my Boomer parents. Anne as a punk chick turned homemaker married to a (late) cheating finance bro was a particular stretch.

That said, I found Tina Fey and Colman Domingo's friendship very relatable and touching, and I loved the sweet subplot involving Will Forte's character meeting a new straight male friend. [/quote]

But they are all supposed to be 10 years older than you. Tina Fey, Colman Domingo, and Kerri Kenney-Silver (Anne) are all 56. Will Forte is 55. Steve Carrell is the oldest at 63 (and I think his character reads as older). Marco Calvani (Claude) is your age, and he reads as younger. But that's why they have so much more time than you do -- they are 10 years later and empty nesting (or in the case of Danny and Claude, DINKs). That is where you will be in a decade when your kids are in college. You, too, will have a bunch of time to hang out with your friends, pursue hobbies, and start thinking about what your life looks like now that the parenting marathon is coming to an end (or shifting into a different gear).

And Anne as a punk chick turned homemaker makes perfect sense. She would have been in NY in her 20s in the 90s, partied all decade, met her finance bro husband (who is 6-7 years older than she was, which tracks) when they were both partying, then married and had a kid in her mid-30s, threw herself into that while her husband made the money and was never around, and then in her mid-to-late 50s when she's done raising their daughter, he finally feels free to dump her for the younger version of her (late 20s/early 30s free spirit), which in his mind is him being a good dad because he kept the family "intact" until his daughter was in college. And then Anne is lost because she changed her whole life and personality for her husband and kid and now they are both gone. It's not a stretch at all, it's just that people are unused to seeing an actress in her 50s who actually looks her age, and therefore think Anne is older than she is, but it's one of the most realistic things about the show.[/quote]

+1 the whole point is they are out of the kids-at-home phase and figuring out what to do with their lives. I am early 40s with young kids so obviously cannot relate to their lifestyle but i thought it was thought provoking about the future when so much of my time and bandwidth and identity is wrapped up in this phase of parenting.[/quote]

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